Coming to the Bowery Poetry Club
Saturday, June 23
(also, Boston, Cambridge, Danbury,
Nyack
& back in NYC
over the next ten days),
the great folk ensemble
of Tuva,
Alash
I heard them jamming on Monday
with members of
the Sun Ra Arkestra,
& it was,
to quote
”mind blowing”
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Merwin or McKuen,
you decide
And even more
(I always thought
Rod was better
than that)
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Ousmane Sembène,
the great African filmmaker
& novelist,
has died
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Outsourcing journalism:
the next fun fad?
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Why arts coverage
in daily papers
matters
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Nicholas Kristof’s
Iraq Poetry Contest
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Sheila E. Murphy
interviewing
Peter Ganick
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More on the laureate’s revolt
of
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Children’s laureate’s
radical idea –
books!
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This year’s
Pew Fellows
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Greg Djanikian’s
latest book
The “Armenian Reznikoff”
is that rarest of creatures,
a poet who went to my high school
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Things fall apart,
but the Booker Prize
goes to
Chinua Achebe
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“Our state's libraries'
greatest patron
since Andrew Carnegie.”
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Andrew Keen
wants to be the next
Hilton Kramer
but it won’t work
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Lit bloggers
are generally pissed-off
(What is it Sartre says
about the political value
of resentment?)
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Maria Mazziotti Gillan.
executive director
of the
at
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Evicting small presses
from Richard Hugo House
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The AA Independent Press Guide
(AA in this instance
refers to
Acid Angel)
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Talking with
Farideh Hassanzadeh
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Poetry &/or patriotism
in Iran
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Concerning Martin Amis’
declaration
that poetry is in decline
(maybe he means
his kind of poetry)
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Discovering a new poet,
Wallace Stevens
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When bad things
happen to good people,
the Bureau of Prisons
bans books
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The Rupert Brooke market
deflates
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Reviving Leonard Michaels
(one of the great
writers of short fiction)
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Billy Collins’
editor
departs
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Truth, advertising,
art poop
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Dishing it out
but not taking it
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Monument
to
Sol Lewitt
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Kenny Goldsmith’s Traffic
now available
as a book
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Tim Peterson’s
report
of the Gil Ott
memorial reading
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For $250,
you can walk across
the Brooklyn Bridge
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Google’s “Book Project”
(aka Pirates of Silicon Valley)
is joined by
the
& the 11 schools
in the
“Big Ten”
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Emory offers
a different model
for digitizing its library,
one that respects copyright
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And then
there is the other extreme,
Mr. Joyce
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Direct democracy
comes to
Nassau poets
take laureateship
into their own hands
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A profile of
Ken Babstock
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Poets & the chronicler
of Avenue A
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A profile of
Dan Waber
&
Jennifer Hill-Kaucher
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500 years of Hebrew poetry
from Spain
translated by Peter Cole
& reviewed by
Harold Bloom
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Slamming at
the House of Hunger
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The
Poetry Conference
is at it again
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The Poet Laureate
of
Alexandria, VA
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Leonard Nathan,
a poet who taught rhetoric at
has died
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The
No one under 65
need apply
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What’s new in the dictionary
over on the islands
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Remembering
Ponatshego Mokane
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Book Expo
for a small market
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Music critics
are getting the ax also
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A review of
Zoe Strauss’
first New York solo show
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Two photos by
Nick Ut
taken on the same day
35 years apart
photo © 2006 by Gordon Ball (Courtesy of Jacket)
A fabulous
photo essay
on Allen Ginsberg & Co.
by Gordon Ball
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50 years ago this week,
Howl
was busted
in Britain
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A history & exhibition
of
The Fugs
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The dog & pony show
is in
&
on line
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What’s your font?
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The number of titles
published each year
is nearing
300,000
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Gabriel García Márquez
goes home
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Magee’s Emerson
as the founding father
of flarf
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Talking with Jack Mapanje,
poet & one-time
political prisoner
of
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Asked
if they’d read any
good books lately,
Dave Eggers
lists C.D. Wright
&
Edwidge Danticat
lists Nikki Giovanni
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Talking with
George Bowering
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William Meredith,
one of the quietest
of the School of Quietude,
has died
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Geoffrey G. O’Brien
on
John Ashbery’s “Clepsydra”
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The importance
of destroying a language
(your own)
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Mark Harris
has died
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Talking with
Eleni Sikelianos
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On the Road
(Swiss version)
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Interfaces + Recursion
= Language?
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Talking with
Orhan Pamuk
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Against
the idea
of poetry
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Paul Portuges
on 2Pac
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Talking with
Allison Knowles
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An oral history
of the
Subtext
reading series
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More on the life
& death
of
Sarah Hannah
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Talking with
Billy
Collins
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Howard Zinn
on the end
of newspaper
book reviews
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drops its critics
The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
defends
its arts coverage
while it’s laid-off
book reviewer
gets a job
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BEA
considers
the future (if any)
of book reviews
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Who controls
an author’s
estate?
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The close connection
between
business & poetry
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The Poetry Foundation
wins a webby
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Novelists slum
in the New Gutter
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Dialog as critique:
on
Michael Rothenberg
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PENNsound
makes it to
the leader’s quadrant
of
”Approval Matrix”
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Dada, Gary Snyder
& environmental action
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A profile of
Nancy Botkin
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Jim Behrle
on the website of Poetry:
”The Ex-Laureates”
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Getting wild & crazy
at Poetry
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Giving up poetry
for politics
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A profile of
David Malouf
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Where are the children’s books
denouncing gay rights,
affirmative action
& promoting gun ownership?
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Why Hal Meyerson
is the best
political columnist
in the
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Yoshi’s
pulls
a commemorative
but not representative
CD
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Talking with
Richard Serra
& a profile
of the retrospective
at MoMA
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A seriously
pre-digital
camera
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Joe Goode
in
Humansville
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Yoko Ono
eats a corgi
Sarah Hannah
took her life
last Wednesday
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in translation
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Rae Armantrout
in
The Nation
(subscription required)
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The writing of
Omani women
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Bill Moyers
talks with
Maxine Hong Kingston
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The Inky reviews
the Pulitzer-winning
volume of verse
& an interview
with Natasha Trethewey
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A profile
of Erica Funkhouser
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Burning books
without a permit
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Time to define
literary criticism
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Günter Grass:
How I spent the war
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Robert Kelly explains
the Annandale Dream Gazette
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Do databases have a sense of humor?
Amazon recommends
that if you buy
Ed Dorn’s
Way More West
you should also buy
my own
The Age of Huts (compleat)
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Trying to document
the growth of
Guyanese poetry
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Martín Espada
gives a
commencement address
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Celebrating
the new
Konkani
poets
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Len Roberts
has passed away
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The latest
from
Donald Hall
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Yet another article
bemoaning
the loss
of indie imprints
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Was C. Day-Lewis
as dashing
as Daniel?
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This week’s
bookstore obits
come from
Manitowoc, WI
&
Arvada, CO
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Wondering just how quiet
Quietude should be
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Gary Snyder
on Jack Kerouac
& against
the new
nuclear enthusiasts
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Linh Dinh’s
video archive
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Wise men fish here
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Auctioning off
the remains of
Gotham Book Mark
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The used & rare
book trade
in Moscow
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Writing in
totalitarian
times
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Languages
as design objects
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EAOGH’s
3rd issue
is on
Queering Languange
Hear the massive
launch reading
at the Bowery Poetry Club
here
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A protest poet
in the language of
Marathi
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“The profession
that professionalizes best
professionalizes least”
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Sharon Harris’
photo archive
of the Toronto
literary scene
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Jonathan Lethem
on Philip K Dick
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The Promethean spirit
in the poetry of
Siddhicharan Shrestha
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Really – this
is the real
talking with
Leonard Gontarek
site
(I had the wrong URL on Wednesday)
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A feminist poet
in
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Garbage in,
fiction out
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Contemporary Iranian poetry
on the trams of Stuttgart
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Talking with
Louis McKee
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More like fantasy baseball
for books
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Bring back
the English major!
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Karl Marx:
The Hollywood Years
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The slush pile
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Garrison Keillor
needs to
take a break
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Ending the manuscript
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Because he’s a purveyor
of stereotypes
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Reading Matthew Rohrer
as the next James Tate
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The poetics
of Roddy Woomble
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Roy De Forest
has died
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Reinventing
the Detroit Institute of the Arts
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Invasion
of the
art consultants
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Installation art
goes to court
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What $72 million
will buy
in the Rothko market
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Oh, but who gets the $$$?
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The next
Henry Moore
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RON SILLIMAN has written and edited 40 books, and had his poetry and criticism translated into 16 languages. Silliman was a 2012 Kelly Writers House Fellow, the 2010 recipient of the Levinson Prize from the Poetry Foundation, a 2003 Literary Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts, a 2002 Fellow of the Pennsylvania Arts Council, and a 1998 Pew Fellow in the Arts. Silliman has a plaque in the walk dedicated to poetry in his home town of Berkeley and a sculpture in the Transit Center of Bury, Lancaster, a part of the Irwell Sculpture Trail. He lives in Chester County, Pennsylvania and teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.
